(AFP) A Vienna court on Wednesday convicted an Austrian woman brought back from a Syrian detention camp for having been part of the Islamic State group, but ordered her jail sentence to be suspended in the first such case in the country.
Since IS was ousted from its self-declared “caliphate” in 2019, the return of family members of fighters that were either captured or killed has been a thorny issue for European countries.
Evelyn T., 26, was brought back alongside her seven-year-old son from a Syrian detention camp in March and has been in detention since then, facing charges of being part of a terrorist group and a criminal organisation.
At her trial on Wednesday, she pleaded guilty to both charges, and the court handed her a suspended jail sentence of two years, court spokeswoman Christina Salzborn said.
